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lewy
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Posted - 26/02/2009 :  13:13:50  Show Profile  Visit lewy's Homepage
The Dots - Day 1
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lewy
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Posted - 26/02/2009 :  20:52:31  Show Profile  Visit lewy's Homepage
The Dots - Day 2 they stop being dots and become.... comas
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lewy
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Posted - 28/02/2009 :  12:10:45  Show Profile  Visit lewy's Homepage
Day 3 in the axolotl House

A general overview:



A nice close up today:



Notice some are developing at a slower rate:
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Kazerella
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Posted - 28/02/2009 :  15:31:06  Show Profile  Visit Kazerella's Homepage
Day 4- The start of little nubbins

You can clearly see that they have started to develop 'nubbins' and are no longer just kidney bean shaped. We suspect these 'nubbins' are probably the gills as they don't grow legs or arms until after they've hatched.




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lewy
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Posted - 02/03/2009 :  21:41:28  Show Profile  Visit lewy's Homepage
Day 5 in the Axolotl House
Dervish says: I'd like to nominate sada!

Tails appear and the nubbins start to get longer
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lewy
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Posted - 02/03/2009 :  22:04:03  Show Profile  Visit lewy's Homepage
Day 6 in the Axolotl House

The Gills get bigger and colours get more defined - It looks like we have a wild-type (olive brown coloured) and the majority are Albino. Won't know until they are bigger if there are any golden type albinos or not... hopefully we'll have a good mix
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lewy
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Posted - 05/03/2009 :  19:19:36  Show Profile  Visit lewy's Homepage
Day 7
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lewy
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Posted - 05/03/2009 :  19:21:30  Show Profile  Visit lewy's Homepage
Day 8 in the Axolotl House

It looked like we may have had twins, But now we think one has eaten through to the others cell.
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lewy
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Posted - 05/03/2009 :  19:24:00  Show Profile  Visit lewy's Homepage
Day 9 in the Axolotl House

Looks like we have a few various colours.

The eyes start to develop and the gills become more defined.
You can see the egg lining where they have been eating it from the inside.
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lewy
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Posted - 09/03/2009 :  19:43:28  Show Profile  Visit lewy's Homepage
Day 10
The eyes develop a little more and features become more defined
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lewy
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Posted - 09/03/2009 :  19:46:39  Show Profile  Visit lewy's Homepage
Day 11

Camera problems today (i think these are the photos taken after the pub)I got them in focus but no flash can see them okay though... you should see the ones I didn't put up

you can see from the last pic they are starting to look more like Axolotls rather than baby fish
Lewy

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lewy
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Posted - 09/03/2009 :  19:49:09  Show Profile  Visit lewy's Homepage
Day 12

Found my flash again some nice bright pictures.
They look like they may hatch soon
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lewy
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Posted - 09/03/2009 :  23:06:25  Show Profile  Visit lewy's Homepage
We got our first hatchling this morning! All the rest look big enough to get out now, I'm expecting a few more in the morning.

Heres the hatchling (sorry about the photo quality but this girl's about 3-4mm and won't get any closer to the edge of the tank)







Here's Chimmey-Changa (the mixed up coloured one) hopefully he'll keep these strange colours as he grows :
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